2007-07-31 06:14:25 · 14 answers · asked by NIHIL VERUM NISI MORS 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Many cultures from around the world have stories of a great tower built in the name of hubris, associated with confused languages, and destroyed by great winds.
One theory was that the building of such a huge project would have required workers from far and wide thus creating a legend of confused languages that was remembered by many cultures.
Another strong possibility is that humans may have gone through a high tower building faze. When civilization gets to a certain level the leaders may become fascinated by building higher and more impressive towers then their predecessors. Many cultures could have a literal or figurative story of the foolishness of building too high.
2007-07-31 07:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
They believed in many gods, and the purpose for the building of the tower was to build a structure high enough so they would survive another flood if the gods sent one. They knew the Earth was flooded once and were trying to build something to escape if the situation arose again. No pun intended of course! ; ) Also, archaeologist have found clay writings between government officials of that time stateing that "The gods have thrown down the tower in one night, and confused our language" So you see the Bible is extremely accurate.
2007-07-31 07:10:47 · answer #2 · answered by skiingstowe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Babylon and Babel ARE believed to be the same place, but the tower of Babel story takes place a few thousand years prior to the rise of what we call the Babylonian Empire.
2007-07-31 06:19:48 · answer #3 · answered by The Nerd 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Babylonians DID believe in God. They just didn't believe in the Hebrew God. In any case, if you are referring to the Tower of Babel, that wasn't built by Babylonians, anyway. They didn't even exist as a people at that point.
2007-07-31 06:22:50 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Genesis 11:1-32
1 Now all the earth continued to be of one language and of one set of words. 2 And it came about that in their journeying eastward they eventually discovered a valley plain in the land of Shi´nar, and they took up dwelling there. 3 And they began to say, each one to the other: “Come on! Let us make bricks and bake them with a burning process.” So brick served as stone for them, but bitumen served as mortar for them. 4 They now said: “Come on! Let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves, for fear we may be scattered over all the surface of the earth.”
5 And Jehovah proceeded to go down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built. 6 After that Jehovah said: “Look! They are one people and there is one language for them all, and this is what they start to do. Why, now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unattainable for them. 7 Come now! Let us go down and there confuse their language that they may not listen to one another’s language.” 8 Accordingly Jehovah scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth, and they gradually left off building the city. 9 That is why its name was called Ba´bel, because there Jehovah had confused the language of all the earth, and Jehovah had scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth.
2007-07-31 06:24:52 · answer #5 · answered by Patricia L 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They built the tower to make a name for themselves, not to get closer to God
Gen 11:4 And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower, and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name FOR OURSELVES, lest we be scattered upon the face of the whole earth.
2007-07-31 06:20:22 · answer #6 · answered by prismcat38 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The tower they built was for the purpose of an offering to their concept of their "god", or goddess. Even the most primitive of our global population beseech some sort of spiritual energy.
My spiritual companions are my ancestors.
2007-07-31 06:21:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
the Babylonians most certainly did believe in God. not the Jewish god...... they believed in heavan and hell, and wrote about this before the Jews did. / the Babylonians didnt occupy just the city of Babylon, they had an enormous empire. the tower of babel, in Ninevah was in Babylonia, sofar as i am aware. Bab -El and Bab in Babylon, have the same meaning in Akkadian, which the Babylonians spoke.... bab = gate el = god babylon isnt entirelly akkadian.......... wasnt it the name given it by ( ) invaders? bylon, also meaning gate?
2007-07-31 06:22:33 · answer #8 · answered by deva 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Those in Babel obviously did believe in God. Those aren't the same people as the Babylonians later.
2007-07-31 06:20:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is no reason to believe that they did not believe in Him. Even the Egyptians acknowledged Moses's God, and knew that He was real, but they still worshiped other gods.
Postscript: fluke has a point......
2007-07-31 06:16:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋